Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815

Explores how revolutionary ideas were translated into landscape design, encompassing liberty, equality, improvement and colonialism

Spanning the designed landscapes of England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1776 and the Irish rebellion of 1798, with some detours into revolutionary France, this book traces a comparative history of property structures and landscape design across the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and evolving concepts of plantation and improveme...